Michael Grasso is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Program Director for the University of Maryland’s Master of Science and Graduate Certificate Programs in Clinical Informatics. He is an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine, with more than 12 years of work experience in Adult Emergency Medicine, Urgent Care, and Inpatient Observation Medicine. His patient-care duties include the diagnosis and management of acute medical issues, trauma, and early surgical emergencies. He also provides clinical supervision of medical students and residents rotating in the Emergency Department.

In addition to his medical degree, he also holds a PhD in Computer Science, is board-certified in Clinical Informatics, and is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. His research focuses on knowledge representation and reasoning, clinical software engineering, clinical decision support, quality improvement and utilization in Emergency Medicine, opioid prescribing practices, and online consumer health information. He has authored more than 70 publications, received grant funding from NIH, NIST, DoD, and elsewhere; developed curriculum and taught more than 30 courses in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics; and has mentored more than 30 students and residents in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics.